Generation and decomposition of scalar and vector modes carrying orbital angular momentum: a review

S Pachava, R Dharmavarapu… - Optical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM), one of the most recently discovered degrees of freedom
of light beam field has fundamentally revolutionized optical physics and its technological …

Generation and expansion of Laguerre–Gaussian beams

Y Yang, Y Li, C Wang - Journal of Optics, 2022 - Springer
Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) beams are typical vortex beams with orbital angular momentum
(OAM), spiral wavefront phase, and donut-shaped intensity distribution. They are widely …

Beam quality measure for vector beams

B Ndagano, H Sroor, M McLaren, C Rosales-Guzmán… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Vector beams have found a myriad of applications, from laser materials processing to
microscopy, and are now easily produced in the laboratory. They are usually differentiated …

Low-threshold single-wavelength all-fiber laser generating cylindrical vector beams using a few-mode fiber Bragg grating

B Sun, A Wang, L Xu, C Gu, Z Lin, H Ming, Q Zhan - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate a low-threshold single-wavelength all-fiber laser generating
cylindrical vector beams using a few-mode fiber Bragg grating. Both radially and azimuthally …

Orbital angular momentum beam excitation using an all-fiber weakly fused mode selective coupler

S Pidishety, S Pachava, P Gregg, S Ramachandran… - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Orbital angular momentum beam excitation through direct phase-matched coupling is
experimentally demonstrated using an all-fiber weakly fused mode selective coupler …

Ultrabroadband multichannel vector vortex beams with versatile electrically induced functionality

P Sun, B Liu, Y Wang, C Yuan, S Jia… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of vector vortex beams (VVBs) has opened new avenues for various
applications in optics and photonics. However, owing to the formidable phase aberration …

Continuously tunable orbital angular momentum generation using a polarization-maintaining fiber

RD Niederriter, ME Siemens, JT Gopinath - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the generation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a two-mode
polarization-maintaining (PM) optical fiber. We combine two linearly polarized modes of PM …

Generation of optical vortices using a helical fiber Bragg grating

Z Lin, A Wang, L Xu, X Zhang, B Sun, C Gu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present an effective method to generate optical vortices (OVs) by using a helical fiber
Bragg grating (H-FBG) written directly on the few-mode fiber. The helical index modulation is …

Experimental investigation of environment-induced entanglement using an all-optical setup

MHM Passos, WF Balthazar, AZ Khoury, M Hor-Meyll… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We investigate the generation of entanglement between two noninteracting qubits coupled
to a common reservoir. An experimental setup was conceived to encode one qubit on the …

Microcombs in fiber Fabry–Pérot cavities

J Musgrave, SW Huang, M Nie - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Optical frequency combs, which consist of precisely controlled spectral lines covering a wide
range, have played a crucial role in enabling numerous scientific advancements. Beyond …